Re-thinking the Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland: A Conference in Honour of Roger A. Mason, Professor of Scottish History Saturday 13 October 2018 Parliament Hall, University of St Andrews The Institute of…
Face to Face: Stories from the Asylum An exhibition on the lives of Victorian patients at Dundee Royal Lunatic Asylum Tower Foyer Gallery, University of Dundee 23 March – 9 June 2018: Mon – Fri 09:30 – 19:00 Sat 13:00…
ISHR PhD student Rory MacLellan has been working for the last year on compiling a genealogical index from some of the St Andrews Burgh records, a project supported by the Burnwynd Trust. You can read some of the…
This weekend saw the annual ISHR reading weekend take place at The Burn, Glenesk. A number of ISHR members and guests gathered in these beautiful surroundings to share research in progress and catch up with events and…
This one-day conference – taking place on 30th September 2017 – is an interdisciplinary opportunity to examine the historical, literary, cultural, religious and social ties between Scotland and Ireland in the modern…
This year’s Visiting Fellows Michelle Brock and Valerie Wallace reflect on their time here in St Andrews in a new post on the School of History blog: ISHR Visiting Fellows – A Look Back
We look forward to celebrating the publication of Medieval St Andrews: Church, Cult, City, a major landmark in reinterpreting the importance of the town in the middle ages, in a special event hosted by Topping and…
The next ISHR seminar will take place on Thursday 23 February when Steve Boardman, Professor in Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh, and ISHR Visiting Scholar during this academic year, will present…
The Institute of Scottish Historical Research is delighted to announce the publication in the St Andrews Studies in Scottish History series of Alexander D. Campbell’s The Life and Works of Robert Baillie (1602-1662)…
Our next seminar takes place on Thursday 9 February, and features a postgraduate progress panel. Three current PhD candidates at the ISHR will present short papers: Morag Allan Campbell: ‘A tale of two asylums: Caring…